I/UCRC: Consortium for Embedded Systems - Phase II

I/UCRC：嵌入式系统联盟 - 第二阶段

• 批准号: 1361926
• 负责人: Sarma Vrudhula
• 金额: $ 35.27万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-15 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1361926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UCRC; Consortium; Embedded; Systems; Phase

The NSF I/UCRC Center for Embedded Systems (CES), was established in 2009 as a collaborative effort of Arizona State University (lead) and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, to perform the industry relevant research for advancing the field of Embedded Systems (ES) hardware and software. It commenced its fifth year of operation of Phase I in Fall 2013. This proposal is for continuation of the CES as a Phase II I/UCRC. During Phase I, CES organized its research program into six main research topics, (1) Power, Energy and Thermal-Aware Design, (2) Electronic System-level (ESL) Design and Technologies, (3) Embedded Multicore Architectures and Programming, (4) Embedded Software Systems, (5) Cyber-Physical Systems, and (6) Integrated Circuit Technologies, Design, and Test. It has conducted fundamental, industry-relevant research, with 70 industry funded projects from 17 companies, involving average of 12.6 faculty, and 26.4 graduate students per year. Industry sponsored student internships have led 50 permanent, full time positions. In Phase II, CES will build upon the ongoing research efforts and cover new topics within these areas, and possibly re-balance its emphasis based on the existing and new industry partners, and additional faculty. Specifically, new projects are expected involving emerging nanotechnologies such as memristors and spintronic devices; a greater emphasis on energy harvesting techniques for ultra-low power systems; more projects addressing security and trustworthiness; design techniques and tools for guaranteeing provably correct behavior; and new computation paradigms that perform decision making in the presence of uncertainty. The research conducted at CES addresses many of the challenging problems posed by ES, the solutions to which can be applied to other design microelectronic system platforms. The multi-disciplinary nature of the work, and the diversity of the faculty expertise and the industrial partners will result in societal impact of CESs research outcomes. For instance, CES? work on improving the energy efficiency of ES hardware and software, improves and expands battery powered devices for medical applications and consumer electronics, and can also significantly improve the energy efficiency of high performance servers, thereby reducing the damage to the environment. Similarly, CES? work in verification of hybrid systems is being used to ensure that controls systems in automobiles will operate correctly. The same technologies will be used in all sorts of safety critical systems. CES? work on sensors for monitoring bridges is yet another example of the far reaching societal benefits of its research program. CES maintains a popular internship program at ASU for both undergraduate and graduate students. CES graduate students have learned the necessity and importance of explaining and justifying their work to industry members in a public forum with limited time and to an audience with varied backgrounds. This has made them and their work enormously more marketable to industry. Finally, both ASU and SIUC have successfully inducted outstanding female faculty, and CES will continue this effort in Phase II. In Phase II it is expected that at least one new site (Northeastern University) will be added to CES and continued efforts will be made to expand CES? industrial membership following a strong marketing plan that has been developed to achieve set targets. In addition, CES will explore the possibility of adding one or possibly two international sites: the University of Patras (UoP) in Greece, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. UoP officials are expected to attend the January 2014 meeting of CES, and IISc has expressed interest in exploring ways to become a I/UCRC site, through their recently established Robert Bosch Center for Cyberphysical Systems.

NSF I/UCRC嵌入式系统中心（CES）成立于2009年，是亚利桑那州立大学（牵头）和南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔分校的合作项目，旨在开展行业相关研究，以推进嵌入式系统（ES）硬件和软件领域的发展。它于2013年秋季开始第一阶段的第五年运作。本建议书旨在将CES继续作为II期I/UCRC。在第一阶段，CES将其研究计划分为六个主要研究主题：（1）功率，能源和热感知设计，（2）电子系统级（ESL）设计和技术，（3）嵌入式多核架构和编程，（4）嵌入式软件系统，（5）网络物理系统，以及（6）集成电路技术，设计和测试。它进行了基础，行业相关的研究，与70个行业资助的项目，从17家公司，涉及平均12.6教师，每年26.4研究生。行业赞助的学生实习已经导致50个永久性的全职职位。在第二阶段，CES将建立在正在进行的研究工作的基础上，涵盖这些领域的新课题，并可能根据现有和新的行业合作伙伴以及额外的教师重新平衡其重点。具体来说，新项目预计涉及新兴的纳米技术，如忆阻器和自旋电子器件;更加重视超低功耗系统的能量收集技术;更多的项目解决安全性和可信度;设计技术和工具，以保证可证明正确的行为;和新的计算范式，在不确定性的存在下执行决策。在CES上进行的研究解决了ES提出的许多具有挑战性的问题，这些问题的解决方案可以应用于其他设计微电子系统平台。工作的多学科性质，以及教师专业知识和工业合作伙伴的多样性将导致CES研究成果的社会影响。例如，CES？致力于提高ES硬件和软件的能源效率，改进和扩展用于医疗应用和消费电子产品的电池供电设备，还可以显著提高高性能服务器的能源效率，从而减少对环境的破坏。同样，CES？混合系统的验证工作被用于确保汽车中的控制系统将正确地操作。同样的技术将用于各种安全关键系统。CES？桥梁监测传感器的研究工作是其研究计划产生深远社会效益的另一个例子。CES在亚利桑那州立大学为本科生和研究生提供了一个受欢迎的实习项目。CES研究生已经学会了在有限的时间内向公众论坛和不同背景的观众解释和证明他们的工作的必要性和重要性。这使得他们和他们的工作更有市场。最后，ASU和SIUC都成功地引进了优秀的女教师，CES将在第二阶段继续这一努力。在第二阶段，预计至少有一个新的网站（东北大学）将增加到消费电子展，并继续努力扩大消费电子展？根据为实现既定目标而制定的强有力的营销计划，成为工业会员。此外，消费电子展将探讨增加一个或两个国际站点的可能性：希腊的帕特雷大学和印度班加罗尔的印度科学研究所。UOP官员预计将参加2014年1月的CES会议，IISc表示有兴趣通过其最近成立的Robert Bosch网络物理系统中心探索成为I/UCRC站点的方法。